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Q&A: Konstantinos Dimopoulos on the Virtual Cities of Video Games
The game designer and academic speaks with Metropolis about how fictionalized video game cities can help spark more thoughtful urban planning.
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A New Subway Map for New York City?
At the opening of New York City’s Second Avenue Subway, passengers were given updated copies of the beloved 1972 map by Massimo Vignelli. But, taboo though it may be to say, this attractive map is far from what New Yor
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Deborah Berke on Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map
For our inaugural "Noteworthy" column, in which an architect or designer reflects on an object that has inspired them, Deborah Berke discusses Buckminster Fuller's remarkable Dymaxion Map.
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These Maps Show How Subway Maps Twist Urban Reality
A new project reveals how wrong subway maps really are.
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Projects
These Pocket-Sized ‘Maps’ Are Part Infographic, Part Travelogue
A London-based duo gives locals and tourists a unique perspective on cities in North America and beyond.
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A Tale of Two Maps: Putting Ecology (& Sustainability) First
If you want to peer into the future of architecture and infrastructure, try comparing the impact of two vastly different maps of the same place. For this post, I am using a map of the United States; but you could use jus
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Book Review: The Grid Book
The Grid Book wants to show us that the history of building, composing, computing, mapping, lending, painting, printing, trading, and writing—the history of modern existence, in other words—is really a history of the